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Most of Europe expects the winter to be quite painful from a power perspective. It would not be surprising if cloud providers (major power users) are being aske
by DannyBee 4y ago
Most of Europe expects the winter to be quite painful from a power perspective. It would not be surprising if cloud providers (major power users) are being asked to not increase (or even decrease) power usage.
The timeframe they gave would match that kind of ask.
I wonder whether you see the same behavior from other cloud providers there (ie if you ask them whether new capacity is available, what do they say)
- arcturus17 4y ago> It would not be surprising if cloud providers (major power users) are being asked to not increase (or even decrease) power usage. I doubt it. It will be easier - and probably safer - to ask citizens and physical industry (eg, factories) to bear the brunt than to risk having problems in critical IT infrastructure. Ask people and factories to turn the heat 3 degrees down and the effects will be more or less predictable. Asking to shut compute power down at random will have unpredictable consequences.
- Nemo_bis 4y agoIt's not about shutting down existing machines. The power grid operator might be less willing to approve upgrades to serve increases in capacity. (No idea whether that's the case.)
- Nemo_bis 4y agoSomeone else confirmed my guess https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33744179 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33744179
- arcturus17 4y agoThat makes more sense.
- analyst74 4y agoObviously Azure failed its customer here, but everyone with data centers in Europe is tightening their belts and preparing for the worst. I suspect AWS and GCP just have more headroom in EU.